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2022-01-31T07:00:49-07:00

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Send Me, Lord

Last updated on: January 31, 2022 at 7:00 am By Mark Williams

WHEN I WAS YOUNG… When I was young, not so much in middle age, and even more now, I always felt a desire to ‘go.’ It was sometimes hard to see the path Sometimes, during the course of this journey—down this sometimes-snow-covered trail in this season I am in, it is hard to see the path. Sometimes, I feel I have been on it long enough thank you very much and want to go—anywhere else-even Home. It’s not... Read more

2022-01-23T07:26:13-07:00

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I Think God is Proud of Me

Last updated on: January 23, 2022 at 7:26 am By Mark Williams

Williams SOMETIMES, I STOP TO TAKE AN ACCOUNTING I am approaching four years of being a widower—four years this coming March. In looking back, I think God is proud of me. I find myself trying to figure out the day and year of that transition point, almost every time the topic comes up, either counting backwards from Covid or forward from the doctor telling me ‘Just plan on 2017 is going to suck.’ It’s funny how we do the math.... Read more

2022-01-21T07:51:08-07:00

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Have You Ever had a Conversation with Your Dog?

Last updated on: January 21, 2022 at 7:51 am By Mark Williams

HAVE YOU EVER HAD A CONVERSATION WITH YOUR DOGS? Have you ever had a conversation with your dog, only to find out their answer to your rhetorical question was right? I think God engages us in conversations with Him—through animals. I think dogs mostly, only because I’ve never owned a cat so you cat people can answer that one and I think I had a parakeet when I was a small child, but that could be a dream-or a hamster.... Read more

2022-01-16T13:18:36-07:00

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Living? Sometimes, I want Off

Last updated on: January 16, 2022 at 1:18 pm By Mark Williams

SOMETIMES, I WANT OFF THIS ROCK! I sometimes get so tired. I guess you could say so tired of living, although not just physical fatigue during the day, week, month, yearssssssss. I’ve been this way for a long time-decades. When I found out about God and Jesus and Heaven, it was really hard to figure out why I want to stay on this rock. If, given the opportunity, would I want to fight to stay? Welcome, by the way, to... Read more

wanting to leave this life

2022-01-13T05:41:33-07:00

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Being Alone

Last updated on: January 13, 2022 at 5:41 am By Mark Williams

Nap time I’ve have never been alone. There hasn’t been a time, I know, in which I have been alone. For those of you just tuning in to my ramblings inside my gooey mind, I am a widower. Gosh that makes me sound old and I guess by some yardsticks, I am. If you were thirty-two, you might think, yeah, that sounds old and I think back to my thirties, those I can remember independently... Read more

God's love for me alone

Living alone

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2022-01-09T10:51:55-07:00

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God is a playful God

Last updated on: January 9, 2022 at 10:51 am By Mark Williams

WHEN I WAS A KID…. When I was a kid, Elliot, Darren, sometimes Nelson, but never his older brother Dwayne, would play War. Broom sticks, bats–the real wooden kind, and sometimes army helmets you could purchase at Skaggs Drug Store, were the uniform. Coming from a Naval Aviator home, I was a little out of my destiny being a soldier, but it was okay. That time would come. God is very much a playful God. We were always fighting the... Read more

2022-01-03T11:14:43-07:00

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Where to Start with the New Year

Last updated on: January 3, 2022 at 11:14 am By Mark Williams

WHERE DO MY PLANS START? New year plan(s) As I get older and significantly closer to the last toll gate in life’s travels, I think it’s important we put everything out on the table. I think we need to talk about that diet, painting the patio, maybe a new car/job/trip to Wisconsin. This is the time of year gyms have sales on memberships. People are tired of looking like they should be in a Star Wars movie. They want that... Read more

2021-12-30T14:14:01-07:00

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Best Present Ever!

Last updated on: December 30, 2021 at 2:14 pm By Mark Williams

BEST PRESENT EVER Christmas is over and the survey of best present reached in everyone’s brain races through the list of what you received. I received a box of Hickory Farms! Many of you might be questioning my choice, especially when you hear the rest of the list. I also got a gazillion socks, the short ones where you almost don’t see the sock. Apparently, that is the trend now and they are not even all white, apparently another... Read more

2021-12-24T06:06:24-07:00

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Christmas Eve Day-Jesus’ Game Day 2021

Last updated on: December 24, 2021 at 6:06 am By Mark Williams

GAME DAY! In the history of the Williams household, Christmas Eve and Christmas Eve Day-Jesus’ Game Day, was the sacred time. It was the present opening, church service going, festive prime rib mealing time. Yes, ‘mealing’ is now a word. Feel free to use it today. Growing up, our family would all stuff around the formal dining room table and eat slabs from a standing rib roast, twice baked potatoes, some vegetable, and dessert-probably ice cream something. When I took... Read more

2021-12-23T05:38:25-07:00

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Sing those Sea Chanties Loud!

Last updated on: December 23, 2021 at 5:38 am By Mark Williams

WORLD SEEMS A TAD ANGRY There seem to be a lot of Angry Elves in the world. Reading stuff on FB and Twitter is like watching a Rage match on the WWF channel. We miss God’s playfulness. All of us seem to be wound a little ‘tight.’ Most of that tightness could be justified with the world around us. We surely can justify our pissed-offness. In this season of my life as a widower, I have learned to trust God... Read more

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